Tangerine (color)
orange color hue
The color tangerine is a tone of orange named after the fruit of the same name.
Use in graphic design
Hues of tangerine are used by graphic designers when constructing identities, brand recognition, and stand-out ads for clients. As a result of the brightness of the color variants, they are employed to make a small but centrally important object stand out, especially when surrounded by the flat colors of earth tones. Tangerine hues may also be selected as complements to other bright hues, and because of their relative rarity of use.
One of the original "fruit-flavored" iMacs released in 1999 was the Tangerine iMac (Apple could not call it "Orange" due to the existence of the rival firm Orange Micro).
In sports, the English association football club Blackpool play in and are strongly identified with the color of tangerine since 1923.
Variations of tangerine
Vivid tangerine
Displayed at right is the color vivid tangerine. It is considered a vivid shade of tangerine.
It was made into a Crayola crayon color in 1990.
Atomic tangerine
Atomic tangerine was formulated by Crayola in 1990.
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